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Jim's Cafe - Saturday, October 19, 2024 "would you rather"
- Thread starter Angie
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Hi Angie, thanks for opening the cafe! I haven't been participating in a long time as my life is a mess but I'm trying to put everything back together.
To answer the question, I think I would rather have forget the story's ending.... and sometimes that's the reality anyway haha. I have pretty bad memory. Also, as they say, and I know this probably sounds strange and irrelevant to the topic/question, "ignorance is bliss". I don't like to know everything.... I don't HAVE to know everything, if that makes sense.
To answer the question, I think I would rather have forget the story's ending.... and sometimes that's the reality anyway haha. I have pretty bad memory. Also, as they say, and I know this probably sounds strange and irrelevant to the topic/question, "ignorance is bliss". I don't like to know everything.... I don't HAVE to know everything, if that makes sense.
Hey Angie, thanks so much for posting a cafe for today 
Glad to hear you’re enjoying the fall weather (me too!), and sorry to hear you’re dealing with mid-term blues, I hope they will be better soon. I’m sure you’re already aware of all the info there is about that online, but in case you aren’t, just thought I’d share this link here, hope you find it helpful 
—->>> https://lanterna.com/blog/mid-term-blues/
That is a fun (and also a bit hard, lol!) question, I think I pick the same as puffymilk did though, I’d rather forget the story’s ending. I rarely “like” endings much anyway (I don’t like for stories to ever “end” really, especially when they’re good of course lol) and also I usually end up thinking of a better ending and wishing it had ended the way I think of instead lol. There’s some exceptions of course, but overall I usually don’t like endings.
I’ll do some tags here, then post a few pics I found recently (will post pics in a separate post)
Tags: @Witty_Sarcasm @MisterBGone @Baywasp @Lane @Road to Nowhere @Lisa the Goatgirl @1964dodge @full
Glad to hear you’re enjoying the fall weather (me too!), and sorry to hear you’re dealing with mid-term blues, I hope they will be better soon. I’m sure you’re already aware of all the info there is about that online, but in case you aren’t, just thought I’d share this link here, hope you find it helpful —->>> https://lanterna.com/blog/mid-term-blues/That is a fun (and also a bit hard, lol!) question, I think I pick the same as puffymilk did though, I’d rather forget the story’s ending. I rarely “like” endings much anyway (I don’t like for stories to ever “end” really, especially when they’re good of course lol) and also I usually end up thinking of a better ending and wishing it had ended the way I think of instead lol. There’s some exceptions of course, but overall I usually don’t like endings.
I’ll do some tags here, then post a few pics I found recently (will post pics in a separate post)
Tags: @Witty_Sarcasm @MisterBGone @Baywasp @Lane @Road to Nowhere @Lisa the Goatgirl @1964dodge @full
A few pics I found recently (blue cat one is from that mid-term blues site I posted a link to lol, just thought it was cute and I like what it says too) hope everyone likes and enjoys them. Wishing everyone a nice day and also sending lots of sincere, positive, loving, healing and peaceful vibes and hugs (for those who are wanting hugs) to everyone as well 
Cute positive blue kitty
Pretty sunset art
A cute lil frog 🐸
Cute positive blue kitty
Pretty sunset art
A cute lil frog 🐸
Thanks to @Angie and @JMG.
Hmm, this is an interesting one. I think my answer is complicated quite a bit by the fact it's open to interpretation on specific meaning.
If "reading the end of every book" means exclusively reading the endings, so i know how every book on earth ends, i'd rather always forget the ending. That's cos reading just every ending would effectively spoil every book in existence, meaning getting into any of them would be way more pointless.
But if it means reading every book in existence up to and including the endings, then i'd rather read every ending. Yeah, there are a lot of books out there that wouldn't be worth the time and effort, but there'd also be so many incredible books that i'd become a richer person for having experienced. And i often wish i read more often anyway (although i'm currently reading through the Area X series, which i'm proud of, and it's extremely good).
Plus i feel like endings are one of the most important parts of the story. To me, a book can be terrible all the way through, but can redeem itself with its ending, but if a good book has an awful ending, that ruins the whole thing for me. The Metro books are generally good all the way through, but the powerful endings of 2033 and 2035, and to a lesser extent 2034, are a huge part of why they're my favourite books ever. They convey the central concept of the series more effectively than any other moment in the story.
Hmm, this is an interesting one. I think my answer is complicated quite a bit by the fact it's open to interpretation on specific meaning.
If "reading the end of every book" means exclusively reading the endings, so i know how every book on earth ends, i'd rather always forget the ending. That's cos reading just every ending would effectively spoil every book in existence, meaning getting into any of them would be way more pointless.
But if it means reading every book in existence up to and including the endings, then i'd rather read every ending. Yeah, there are a lot of books out there that wouldn't be worth the time and effort, but there'd also be so many incredible books that i'd become a richer person for having experienced. And i often wish i read more often anyway (although i'm currently reading through the Area X series, which i'm proud of, and it's extremely good).
Plus i feel like endings are one of the most important parts of the story. To me, a book can be terrible all the way through, but can redeem itself with its ending, but if a good book has an awful ending, that ruins the whole thing for me. The Metro books are generally good all the way through, but the powerful endings of 2033 and 2035, and to a lesser extent 2034, are a huge part of why they're my favourite books ever. They convey the central concept of the series more effectively than any other moment in the story.
Thanks @JMG for the tag, and thanks @ Angie for yet another fine cafe.
My first thought was neither because neither option is in any way preferable because both would ruin every book you ever read. If you know the ending to every book before you read it, its kinda ruined, but also, if you only ever forget the ending of every book, then you still remember the rest so it would be boring to read through it over and over to get the ending again just to forget again. But then I thought deeper.
I would choose to always forget the story's ending, because at least then I can choose to simply not read. However, if I were to read the end of every book.... well....
(all answers were googled, I'm not gonna bother with sources)
There are various estimates of the number of books out there, but they generally fall between 129,864,880 and 155,000,000, so choosing the midpoint there are 142,432,440 books. Imagining you only need to read the last page, and an average read time of 1.7 minutes per page, that's 242,135,148 minutes you will spend on this endeavour.
Thats 4,035,585 hours, or 168,149 days, or 460 years, or given an average life expectancy for men of 79 years, 5.8 lifetimes.
So 5.8 lifetimes spent reading JUST the last page of every book, out of context and given a rough guesstimate online that about 20% of all books can be found in English, 80% of all those last pages will be unintelligible to you anyway.
I think I would rather just give up reading than be forced to spend 5.8 lifetimes reading and gain nothing from it.
My first thought was neither because neither option is in any way preferable because both would ruin every book you ever read. If you know the ending to every book before you read it, its kinda ruined, but also, if you only ever forget the ending of every book, then you still remember the rest so it would be boring to read through it over and over to get the ending again just to forget again. But then I thought deeper.
I would choose to always forget the story's ending, because at least then I can choose to simply not read. However, if I were to read the end of every book.... well....
(all answers were googled, I'm not gonna bother with sources)
There are various estimates of the number of books out there, but they generally fall between 129,864,880 and 155,000,000, so choosing the midpoint there are 142,432,440 books. Imagining you only need to read the last page, and an average read time of 1.7 minutes per page, that's 242,135,148 minutes you will spend on this endeavour.
Thats 4,035,585 hours, or 168,149 days, or 460 years, or given an average life expectancy for men of 79 years, 5.8 lifetimes.
So 5.8 lifetimes spent reading JUST the last page of every book, out of context and given a rough guesstimate online that about 20% of all books can be found in English, 80% of all those last pages will be unintelligible to you anyway.
I think I would rather just give up reading than be forced to spend 5.8 lifetimes reading and gain nothing from it.
"Would you rather read the end of every book or always forget the story's ending?"
I think I'd rather read and remember... mainly because of "the more you know (tm)" and all that.
That's especially the case with some topics, like treating medical problems and disarming explosive devices. I'd generally prefer to remember the final steps or it might not be looking good for me 😂
I think I'd rather read and remember... mainly because of "the more you know (tm)" and all that.
That's especially the case with some topics, like treating medical problems and disarming explosive devices. I'd generally prefer to remember the final steps or it might not be looking good for me 😂
